lear frances (33 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.44.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.78.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.

Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. Knopf, New York, 1992. First edition. As new in dust jacket. A clean, tight, unread copy. Memoir. Shipped in well-padded box. Smoke-free. [SALE].

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Ex-library book in very good condition, plastic cover. Alcoholism, abuse, manic-depression, suicide and the successful woman.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. proof. Advance reading copy. ; 199 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Knopf, 1992. First edition. Narrow 8vo. Hard cover binding, 191 pp. A new book that was made into a library book and then remained unread. Very good in very good dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine-. 190 pages in near fine condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Quarterbound in grey cloth and white paper with silver titles. Lightly faded around the edges. White and grey dustjacket in near fine condition. Lightly worn around the edges. Lightly scuffed and scratched. NF/NF-. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Large 8vos. pp xl, 327; 390. Original publisher's two toned green and grey cloth, lettered gilt on spines. Two volumes. Well illustrated throughout (some colour). Lower corners slightly bumped on volume one, otherwise sound, clean, very good. Volume two slightly rubbed with Mudie's Library label on the front pastedown, overall sound, close very good.

Zustand: Very good plus. First trade edition of this assemblage of letters from the esteemed nonsense poet and bird artist to politician Chichester Fortescue and society woman Frances Countess Waldegrave. This edition also reproduces Lear's silly drawings that he included in some letters, as well as some of the paintings he completed during the course of the correspondence. First issued in a limited edition in 1890. 8.75'' x 5.5''. Original green cloth boards. Top edge gilt. Illustrated in black and white and color. xlviii, 328 pages, including index. Binding with a bit of bumping to spine ends. Leaves with occasional foxing to margins. Clean.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. First Edition. Hardcover. In fine condition. A tight, bright example. In grey cloth decorated and lettered in maroon and gilt. Errata slip tipped in. 128 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. [1st American Edition] ; xl, 328 p. : illus., plates, ports. ; 23 cm. ; LC: NC242.L4; Dewey: 821/.8 ; OCLC: 853130986 ; green and olive cloth with gold lettering, top edge gilt, untrimmed ; "Edward Lear was perhaps the founder of that school of English humor which is distinct from the school represented by Hood or Thackeray, and found its most elaborate exemplification in the works of I^ewis Carroll. It may in truth be styled the Nonsense School, to which many of Punch'* contributors belong at the present day. The works of Lear and his followers are delightful and refreshing. To use Johnson's phrase, " they add to the gaiety of nations" by their reckless absurdity, underlain by a streak of subtle fancy. They are written without purpose and their very irresponsibility adds to the feeling of carnival elation with which they fill, as by a momentary flash of light, the mind of the reader. Most of the letters before us are written to Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford, and Lady Waldegrave, who were his intimate friends, as was Hubert Congreve"--The Literary Digest, 1912 ; Contents: Rome, Greece and England -- Corfu and England -- Corfu -- Palestine, Corfu and England -- Rome revisited -- Rome and a winter in England -- Italy and Switzerland -- Corfu -- Malta and England -- Corfu -- England -- Last visit to Corfu -- APpendix: Pictures painted 1840-1877 -- Incomplete list of the works illustrated by Lear ; signature of Clara Howe, dated 1910 on front ep ; spine edges starting; else FAIR. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. [1st edition] ; 391 pages illustrations, plates (1 color) portraits 23 cm. ; LC: NC242.L4; Dewey: 821/.8 ; OCLC: 2868083 ; lavender and purple cloth with gold lettering, top edge gilt, untrimmed ; "Edward Lear was perhaps the founder of that school of English humor which is distinct from the school represented by Hood or Thackeray, and found its most elaborate exemplification in the works of Lewis Carroll. It may in truth be styled the Nonsense School, to which many of Punch'* contributors belong at the present day. The works of Lear and his followers are delightful and refreshing. To use Johnson's phrase, " they add to the gaiety of nations" by their reckless absurdity, underlain by a streak of subtle fancy. They are written without purpose and their very irresponsibility adds to the feeling of carnival elation with which they fill, as by a momentary flash of light, the mind of the reader. Most of the letters before us are written to Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford, and Lady Waldegrave, who were his intimate friends, as was Hubert Congreve"--The Literary Digest, 1912 ; Contents: England, Nice, Malta, Egypt, Cannes -- Corsica, England, and Cannes -- San Remo -- India, England, and San Remo -- San remo, and England -- San Remo and Switzerland -- Switzerland and San Remo -- San Remo and Nothern Italy -- Appendix: A Orange-blossom -- Letters from Lear to Mrs. Hassall --- Letter from Lear to Lord Avebury -- Complete list of contemplated illustrations to poems by Lord Tennyson -- Pictures exhibited by Lear at the Royal Academy -- Subscribers to his Temple of Bassae at t he Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge -- Subscribers list of members to Argos by Lear presented to Trinity College, Cambridge ; bookstore label of The Times Book Club, Oxford Street, London, dated 5 DEC 1911 ; G. Book.

Frances D. Lear's first note, signed by her, was written to her "Dearest friend," and dated Wednesday 10th April [18]39. Single sheet, 12.5 x 16 cm., approx. 60 words, addressed on verso to "Mrs. Madison." Mrs. Lear requests "the favor of one more frank for Miss Hart and if you are sending to the Post office this can be put in with yours." Her second note, also signed, and dated May 20th, 1842, is directed on the verso to "Mrs. Madison- Presidents Square." Single sheet, 20 x 19.5 cm., approx. 70 words. Mrs. Lear thanks her "beloved friend for the letter of yesterday," and reports that Commodore Hull is "quite well again and Mrs. Hull as usual." Both notes are in a clear hand, and both have been neatly silked. Frances Dandridge Henley, Martha Washington's niece, was the third wife of Tobias Lear (1762-1816), private secretary to George Washington. They married in 1803, and spent several years in North Africa where Lear represented the United States as Consul General at Algiers, and negotiated the Treaty of Tripoli during the Barbary Wars. Commodore Hull, referred to in the second note, was Isaac Hull (1773-1843), who saw service in the Mediterranean during the Barbary Wars and later became Commodore of the U.S. Navy. Upon the Lears return to the United States, Pres. James Madison gave Tobias Lear an appointment in the War Department, just at the outbreak of the War of 1812 and the burning of Washington. Lear later committed suicide in 1816, leaving behind no explanation, according to his biography in the DAB. Frances Lear continued to live in Washington, DC until her death in 1856. Mrs. Madison had returned to the city in 1837, following the death of her husband at Montpelier in Virginia the previous year, and the two women evidently renewed their friendship. Dolley Madison struggled to support herself and her son Payne Todd who was a poor manager of the family estate, by attempting to sell her husband's papers in the 1840s.